Toshiko Akiyoshi Smithsonian Interview Block 396 (Q18349)

Miles Davis, he would let me sit in. But when I went, he would lean on the piano and hed watch me, my hands, like this, and I was like this (demonstrates nervousness), you know. And he said to me, "Are you nervous? " I said, "Yes. " He said, "Well, dont be. But I felt the same way with Bird. " Thats what he told me. Now, Miles Davis was not exactly the way people think, hes an evil guy, so o ...